Current position

Professional Experience

My experience as a translator and interpreter includes
translation on various topics ranging from regular business
correspondence and reports, legal documents, financial and
privatisation documents, up to highly technical areas such as
ergonomics, agriculture, aerospace, defence industry,
telecommunications, civil engineering, theory of music. My interpreting
experience covers both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting
(Czech, English, French) during business meetings, seminars and social
events. My major translation and interpreting assignments are listed
below.

Simultaneous
interpreting

Directors Meeting of the Association of the
European Cities of Culture 2000 - a 2 day seminar of Directors from the
9 cities which were awarded the title of the European Cities of Culture
for the year 2000 (Czech, French)

Consecutive
interpreting

Technical and business meetings concerning
one of the first bank card projects in the Czech Republic, Paris,
France (Czech, French)

January 1996 - April 1996

Interpreting meetings for Lockheed Martin
officials (business meetings with Czech industrial companies, meetings
with officials from Czech Ministries and other state administration
bodies, interpreting on various social occasions) (Czech,
English)

November 1997 - September 2001

Technical and business meetings related to
the roll-out of the second GSM network in the Czech Republic
(Czech, English)

February 1997 - October 1997

Business meetings within Trade Missions
organised by the Irish Trade Board and the British Commercial Section
(Czech, English)

November 1998 - February 2002

Seminars, meetings with Czech government and
judiciary officials organised by the UNHCR or attended by its
representatives discussing issues related to the asylum procedure
(Czech, English, French)